{"id":15087,"date":"2024-09-19T15:56:30","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T20:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/?p=15087"},"modified":"2024-09-21T15:58:11","modified_gmt":"2024-09-21T20:58:11","slug":"satan-jerrys-response-to-post-9-19-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/15087\/satan-jerrys-response-to-post-9-19-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Satan: Jerry&#8217;s response to post 9\/19\/2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Wow.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Being like Satan (or becoming like him after one is born again) seems akin to having the knowledge of God, without the love of God.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If that is correct, I don&#8217;t think the world could even qualify to be like Satan.\u00a0\u00a0The knowledge of God comes through the Spirit of God.\u00a0\u00a0So the error of being like Satan would belong to the body of Christ alone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">But for God&#8217;s children, if we gain the knowledge of God after we are born again,\u00a0and\u00a0then allow the life, the love, the Spirit of God in us to dry up, we are left with a dead shell&#8230;a memory of life. I guess we could call that a knowledge of God, but without love (or life &#8211; God&#8217;s life) to wield it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As God&#8217;s (ex) prosecutor, it seems\u00a0that\u00a0Satan was\/is just that way. He knows the rules, so to speak, but he doesn&#8217;t know God&#8217;s heart to apply them.\u00a0\u00a0He would hurt everything he touches\u00a0even when meaning to do well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Whew.\u00a0\u00a0Makes me want to abandon hard and fast rules for\u00a0life in the\u00a0Spirit, where both the knowledge AND THE LOVE exist!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Jerry<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow.\u00a0 Being like Satan (or becoming like him after one is born again) seems akin to having the knowledge of God, without the love of God. If that is correct, I don&#8217;t think the world could even qualify to be like Satan.\u00a0\u00a0The knowledge of God comes through the Spirit of God.\u00a0\u00a0So the error of being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15087"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15088,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15087\/revisions\/15088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}